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Neural networks are getting better accuracy with higher energy and computational cost. After quantization, the cost can be greatly saved, and the quantized models are more hardware friendly with acceptable accuracy loss. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chang Song , Riya Ranjan , Hai Li

Recently, the generalization behavior of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is gradually transparent through explanation techniques with the frequency components decomposition. However, the importance of the phase spectrum of the image for…

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More and more empirical and theoretical evidence shows that deepening neural networks can effectively improve their performance under suitable training settings. However, deepening the backbone of neural networks will inevitably and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shanshan Zhong , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin , Zhongzhan Huang

We propose Absum, which is a regularization method for improving adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although CNNs can accurately recognize images, recent studies have shown that the convolution operations in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-20 Sekitoshi Kanai , Yasutoshi Ida , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Masanori Yamada , Shuichi Adachi

Activation functions have a notorious impact on neural networks on both training and testing the models against the desired problem. Currently, the most used activation function is the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU). This paper introduces a…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is a popular and effective strategy to defend against adversarial attacks. Recent works (Benz et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2021; Tian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Boqi Li , Weiwei Liu

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Sparsely-gated Mixture of Expert (MoE), an emerging deep model architecture, has demonstrated a great promise to enable high-accuracy and ultra-efficient model inference. Despite the growing popularity of MoE, little work investigated its…

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Deep convolutional neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks. They can be easily deceived to give an incorrect output by adding a tiny perturbation to the input. This presents a great challenge in making CNNs robust against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yunrui Yu , Xitong Gao , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs) that mislead the model while appearing benign to human observers. A critical concern is the transferability of AEs, which enables black-box attacks without direct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiahao Chen , Zhou Feng , Rui Zeng , Yuwen Pu , Chunyi Zhou , Yi Jiang , Yuyou Gan , Jinbao Li , Shouling Ji

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various tasks in computer vision. However, recent studies demonstrate that these models are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial samples and suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xin Li , Xiangrui Li , Deng Pan , Dongxiao Zhu

Neural network ensembles have been studied extensively in the context of adversarial robustness and most ensemble-based approaches remain vulnerable to adaptive attacks. In this paper, we investigate the robustness of Error-Correcting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Thomas Philippon , Christian Gagné

Evolution strategies (ES), as a family of black-box optimization algorithms, recently emerge as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning (RL) approaches such as Q-learning or policy gradient, and are much faster when many central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhi Wang , Chunlin Chen , Daoyi Dong

We investigate how fully-passive electromagnetic skins (EMSs) can be engineered to enhance channel charting (CC) in dense urban environments. We employ two complementary state-of-the-art CC techniques, semi-supervised t-distributed…

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This study explores the impact of adversarial perturbations on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the aim of enhancing the understanding of their underlying mechanisms. Despite numerous defense methods proposed in the literature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Davide Coppola , Hwee Kuan Lee

Evolution Strategies (ES) emerged as a scalable alternative to popular Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques, providing an almost perfect speedup when distributed across hundreds of CPU cores thanks to a reduced communication overhead.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Víctor Campos , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres

Complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs) are rising in popularity for all kinds of applications. To safely use CVNNs in practice, analyzing their robustness against outliers is crucial. One well known technique to understand the behavior of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Florian Eilers , Christof Duhme , Xiaoyi Jiang

Empirical adversarial risk minimization (EARM) is a widely used mathematical framework to robustly train deep neural nets (DNNs) that are resistant to adversarial attacks. However, both natural and robust accuracies, in classifying clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Bao Wang , Binjie Yuan , Zuoqiang Shi , Stanley J. Osher

Reinforcement learning (RL) has made significant advancements, achieving superhuman performance in various tasks. However, RL agents often operate under the assumption of environmental stationarity, which poses a great challenge to learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Guoqing Ma , Yuhan Zhang , Yuming Dai , Guangfu Hao , Yang Chen , Shan Yu

Adversarial training has proven to be effective in hardening networks against adversarial examples. However, the gained robustness is limited by network capacity and number of training samples. Consequently, to build more robust models, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zheng Xu , Ali Shafahi , Tom Goldstein